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Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2013 11:08 am

I adored dinosaurs when I was a kid (still rather fascinated with them, actually), and because of that my mother bought me the first TLBT movie. I watched half of it, and quickly went back to the Discovery Channel documentaries. Dinosaurs - mauling and tearing = boring (for a six year old, at least).

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Napero wrote:

(...) Bolt Thrower is to the soul what coffee is to the earthly shell.

I had ALL the Land Before Time movies on VHS and let me tell you, they don't even come close to the toaster. As much as I loved dinosaurs as a kid, there's only so much "YUP YUP YUP" I can take from that little yellow dinosaur. All the characters were either unlikeable (the little brontosaurus and triceratops) or too stupid (Petrie the pterodactyl and the mute guy).

I always wanted to punch Sarah (the triceratops) in the face. What an uppity bitch.

Ducky was rad as was Spike, you crazy... it was really only Sarah that I hated. I always wished Sharptooth would have eaten her.

And always remember to search through the dark corners of your house guys. You don't know the treasures that you may find in that old cardboard or wooden box your family just left to rot in solitude.Seriously, you may find a lost collection of rare vinyl albums!

all this talk about disturbing/trippy/scary children's movies made me remember"The Black Cauldron". Actually it isn't disturbing (it's Disney, hey) but I saw this askid in the cinema and while I was old (8) enough to watch it, there were quite some moms and das with their little 4/5 year old kids in it. And when the Horned Kingappeared fully on screen there was so much crying and all the parentsleaving the hall (whimps and posers undoubtly, hehe) with their little ones.Hehe, I still remember it and it still makes me smile - good ol' Horned King.

"Are you sure those were just ordinary mushrooms you put in my tea, Merlin?"

Love that movie! have watched it countless times and always join in laughing tearswhen Archimedes get's his laugh-flash

edit: btw - I highly suggest reading T. H. White's "The Once and Future King" books.Said movie is based on book one called "The Sword in the Stone" and all togetherare some of the best books I've ever read. Obviously the three following books don'thave that fun aspect as Camelot went down...

all this talk about disturbing/trippy/scary children's movies made me remember"The Black Cauldron". Actually it isn't disturbing (it's Disney, hey) but I saw this askid in the cinema and while I was old (8) enough to watch it, there were quite some moms and das with their little 4/5 year old kids in it. And when the Horned Kingappeared fully on screen there was so much crying and all the parentsleaving the hall (whimps and posers undoubtly, hehe) with their little ones.Hehe, I still remember it and it still makes me smile - good ol' Horned King.

Oh god yes. where the only thing I loved was the horned king and all the dead coming back to life for what... 5 minutes? before it went into the toilet again?

Wow, I actually read the books the Black Cauldron is based on, but never knew about the movie. After reading the plot, I can tell you with certainty that the books are wayyyyy better. For one thing, the Black Cauldron is destroyed because Taran's "friend" (they actually hate each other for most of the book) sacrifices himself by jumping into it alive, which breaks it but kills him also. For another, the Cauldron Born are there from the beginning, but in the movie they apparently only come out briefly at the end. Also, the Horned King isn't even the main villain, he's the champion of the main villain, and gets killed at the end of the first book (the Black Cauldron gets destroyed at the end of the second).

Anyway, the Chronicles of Prydain is a good fantasy series, though geared more toward children/young adults. It's a classic "hero's journey" type story, but it's more interesting than many because it's based on Welsh myths and legends, so there aren't any typical fantasy dwarves or elves or orcs or any of that. If you enjoy lighthearted fantasy, you could probably enjoy it.

Also, it's interesting to note that the band Cauldron Born got their name from the same series.

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One day I introduced a bill to congress making it illegal to teach American students about the concept of real freedom and it quickly passed the house and senate! Within generations, America was a nation of witless slaves, forever serving their banally evil taskmasters! Btw, this happened decades ago: that world I described? You're living in it!